New Wonder Drug From Germany

Think of all the wonder drugs and their benefit to society: Aspirin. Penicillin. Streptomycin. Sulfa drugs. Cortisone. Ritalin. The list goes on and on. And now, Reuters reports that German scientists have developed the next great breakthrough - an Anti-Stupidity Pill.

Yes, you can believe it! A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.

It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilize short-term memory and improve attentiveness.

"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."

Scott's Spot is solidly in the anti-stupidity camp. We have a list of names of people with attention spans shorter than mice and fruit flies. We'll let you know how they fare in the next round of testing.